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Pages in category "American military personnel killed in the Iraq War" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
North Korea {Cold War} 1959: 1968–69; 1976; 1984 killed 41; Wounded 5; 82 captured/released. [100] USS Liberty incident 1967 killed 34; Wounded 173 by Israeli armed forces; Vietnam War prior to 1964-US Casualties were Laos – 2 killed in 1954; and Vietnam 1946–1954 – 2 killed see; [101] f. ^ Iraq War. See also Casualties of the Iraq War ...
William "Chief" Carlson (1959 - 2003): joined Delta Force in the mid-1990s after serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment and Army special forces. While working with the CIA's Special Activities Center, he was killed in action on October 25, 2003, during a mission in Afghanistan, where he sacrificed himself to protect his team. [5] [6] [7]
These numbers are also not in line with the U.S. military estimate of some 3,984 killed in 2008 and 2009. [144] U.S. military- and Iraqi Defence Ministry-provided numbers, including suicide bombers. 2011 – 451 (not including February & August) 2010 – 676; 2009 – 488 (not including June) 2008 – 2,028
April 9 - One soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on the ICDC Headquarters in Samarra. [705] April 15 - Two soldiers were killed in an ambush in Kirkuk. [706] April 16 - One soldier was killed in a mortar attack south of Fallujah. [707] May May 2 - Two soldiers were killed in Baghdad. [708] May 12 - One soldier was killed in ...
For example, during the Seven Days Battles in the American Civil War (June 25 to July 1, 1862) there were 5,228 killed, 23,824 wounded and 7,007 missing or taken prisoner for a total of 36,059 casualties. [1] [note 1] The word casualty has been used in a military context since at least 1513. [2]
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and one campaign during the Iraq War (the Anbar campaign from March 20 2003 to December 7, 2011).
Joshua Lloyd Wheeler (November 22, 1975 – October 22, 2015) was a United States Army soldier who was killed in Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve. [3] [4] He was a master sergeant assigned to the elite Delta Force, and was the first American service member killed in action as a result of enemy fire while fighting ISIS militants.